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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolera...te. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progres...s upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would... certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because al...l his thoughts are of things which they devour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal th...at few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in fav...our of the belief which he finds in himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world out...side, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other h...uman being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »